‘All I Had to Deal With Was a Meteor!’ Biden Hits Up 5 Famous Hollywood Presidents for State of the Union Advice

President Joe Biden gathered a panel of actors who have played the role of U.S. President in movies and television shows to give him advice in advance of Thursday’s State of the Union address, posting the video on his social media accounts.

“You may’ve heard I’ve got a big speech coming up,” wrote Biden to caption the video from Camp David. “So, I thought I would hear from some folks who have done the job before — sort of.”

Included in his Hollywood advisory panel were Morgan Freeman (President Tom Beck in the 1998 film Deep Impact), Tony Goldwyn (President Fitzgerald Grant III in the television series Scandal), Geena Davis (President Mackenzie Allen in the television series Commander in Chief), Michael Douglas (President Andrew Shepard in the 1995 film The American President), and Bill Pullman (President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 film Independence Day).

The actors’ messages to Biden made tongue-in-cheek references to the challenges they faced “when I was president.”

“All I had to deal with was a meteor!” quipped Freeman, who starred in the 1998 summer meteor disaster movie that didn’t have Ben Affleck or Aerosmith, but was assessed by actual scientists at being far more accurate on the astronomy.

“Looking back on my own presidency, I — I, uh, behaved very badly in a lot of situations,” admitted Goldwyn, whose character’s actions were a key part of why the show was called Scandal.

Davis told Biden that her “experience” as president was that “it seemed like every week, there was some new crisis that I had to face,” but “there’s no crying in politics.”

Keaton, whose widowed president found a new love with an environmental lobbyist portrayed by Annette Bening, told Biden that “having a loving partner changes everything,” and urged him to save a dance for First Lady Jill Biden in the East Room after the speech.

Like Freeman, Pullman joked that he “had it easy,” because an alien invasion “tends to unify people.”

“I’m not so sure it was the greatest speech ever,” Pullman continued, referencing his famous “Today we celebrate our Independence Day!” monologue from the film, but he thought it worked because it emphasized getting past “petty differences” to be “united in our common interests.”

The video got a predictably positive reception on The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter from Biden supporters for embracing its own adorkable awkwardness, along with some suggestions for future Biden-fictional POTUS collaborations, and a similarly predictably negative reception from Biden’s critics on the right.

The absence of other fictional presidents, however, was a stumbling block for many commentators, specifically Martin Sheen’s beloved turn as President Josiah Bartlett on the Aaron Sorkin series The West Wing — especially since Sheen has endorsed Biden in real life.

Watch the video above, via @POTUS on The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter.

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